Resonating feathers produce courtship song

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1683, 2010, Pages 835-841

  Bostwick, Kimberly S ^a   Elias, Damian O ^b   Mason, Andrew ^b   Montealegre Z, Fernando ^c,d  

^a Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feather; Laser vibrometry; Morphological novelty; Resonance; Sexual selection; Sonation

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FEATHER; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; RESONANCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; MACHAEROPTERUS DELICIOSUS; PIPRIDAE;

EID: 77950228131     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1576     Document Type: Article

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